[1] . . . Twenty years ago (1901) Russia held first place in oil extraction, but then after the events in Baku in 1904/5, our oil extraction declined many times over . . .
. . . At one time, oil industrialists explained that the districts were increasingly flooded by groundwater . . .
. . . There were areas where the ratio of extracted oil to extracted water was . . .
. . . Only 2–3 firms concerned themselves with the water-logging of their plots, while there were some 180 oil-industrial firms in Baku altogether . . .

[2] . . . the oil industrialists were especially fearful of the water-logging of the oil fields and, as a result, the displacement of OIL within them—AND IN THIS, what is now called a "catastrophe," they saw no problem; nevertheless, a genuine owner must reckon with this and must necessarily take every measure to facilitate the work of extracting oil from the oil fields.